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KansasFest 2009 – Wednesday

When I got back to XL last night it was almost 1:00am, and many attendees were still up sociallizing and working on projects. I made the rounds to a few rooms to say hi and eventually hit the sack over an hour later. Wednesday is the first official day of KFest. I used the morning […]

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KansasFest 2009 – Tuesday

Today is our early registration day, when many (probably most) of us are arriving, checking in and moving into our dorm rooms. We’re in Xavier-Loyola this year; probably my favorite of the dorms we’ve stayed in. It has a nice large common area for attendees to mingle, and it’s easy to move equipment in and […]

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Alex Lukacz UFIC project

Alex Lukacz has finished his UFIC (USB to IDE Controller) project, an ingenious way to access the compact flash installed on a MicroDrive controller in an Apple II, without having to open the case up. When the Apple II is turned on, the compact flash card works normally on the MicroDrive card. When the power […]

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Virtual Apple ][ website updated

Bill Martens writes: The latest version of the Virtual Apple ][ Website, Version 4.4 has been released. The new version of the Virtual Apple ][ site features the latest ActiveGS emulator plugin which runs on both Mac OS 10.5.x and PC based Windows 2k and newer. The plugin is compatible with IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera […]